Risdon Beazley Marine Trading Co
by 1928 was in business at Northam Bridge, Southampton[1]
1930 Advertised a 67-foot yacht, able to accommodate 5 persons (excluding crew), built by the company of Bitterne Manor, Southampton for Captain Harbord, on a hull of Admiralty design[2]
1932 Refloated the Coronet; the work was personally supervised by Mr. Risdon A. Beazley[3]
1938 Salvaged the Tarascon which had been beached on the sands at the entrance to Salcombe Harbour after being on the rocks[4]
Late 1940s: raised several wrecks, some of which the firm purchased in order to work on them
1952 British salvage ship Foremost 17, operated by Risdon Beazley Ltd, landed copper and lead ingots in New South Wales that had been raised from the wreck of the freighter the Cumberland which had been sunk by a mine in 1917.[5]